queensland Brisbane River Session #45 And #46

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Hi all

Because I woke up at five this morning, I believe I have caught nothing but a bloody cold. Hence, I really do not feel like writing a report right now. So I'll just chuck up some piccies from the last couple sessions, and then I'll write the report when I feel better.  

A 29cm Cast net bream

A 31cm River Perch - an OK fight was had

Some b*stard who thinks it OK to leave the jetty with blood

It had just been cleaned too, so it was a real shame

My dad cleaning out glassies. He put in about 40 good throws this morning for bugger all... and I ran out of bait!

That's all, report to hopefully come soon!

Cheers Hamish  

[samsteele115]

Cool fish! What line you running? 

I don't jetty fish much but have to say I don't think I've cleaned up blood  Fish blood and squid ink on the jetties here are part of the furniture. A good indication to see when the squid are on too. 

It seems I'm missing the etiquette! I know now. Thanks 

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Hey samsteele115

Thanks, the perch seem to be unique to the rivers around here, and as for the breambo he was a shock as he was right up the top of the net. Probably gouging himself on prawns. I use 12lb and 14lb mainlines on my lighter lines, one of which I use for cod/breambos/flatties, and the other I use for perch, and catfish. I use 20lb black magic fluorocarbon leader. On my salmon line, I run 30lb mainline, 30lb leader, and 80lb mono trace. I've still been done on that, but I think any heavier and I may lose the 'sporting' element. Lol. 

I simply clean it so someone doesn't complain to the council, then they shut it off to me. This has got to be my favourite place to fish, and especially to spend outdoors too. I wish there were squid there, LOL, but in the murky waters of the river a squid would have to be as disoriented as my brother to be up there! 

Some more memorable sessions were #5, #16, #21, #25-26, #32, and #37 I believe. Other than that, a lot of my sessions are for diddly squat, or just catfish and perch (the perch are the worse pickers on the salmon line when using prawns).

Cheers Hamish  

 

[samsteele115]

Mate that's awesome! Is the 80lb mono for the raspy mouths of jew and threadfin? How long? Attach with double uni knot? 

Would love to get a jew,  only got one as tuna by catch before so I don't really count it. 

Have you tried lighter for bream and the smaller species? I've found by using 6lb I'd get a lot more bites. At least you've got a bit of insurance if something bigger latches on with 14lb. 

Pm me your address and I can send you some 3lb leader and a couple of bream lures I no longer use if you like. 

Good point about keeping the jetty clean if it's multi purpose!! I think the ones I'm referring to must be fishing specific. 

[GregOug]

All the jetties I used to fish on had dried blood, scales and pieces of old bait on them. I wouldn’t worry too much about cleaning them Hamish. I don’t think the council is going to close them down if they get a letter about signs of fishing activity on a jetty designed for fishing.

cheers

Greg

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

12 hours ago, samsteele115 said:

Mate that's awesome! Is the 80lb mono for the raspy mouths of jew and threadfin? How long? Attach with double uni knot? 

Would love to get a jew,  only got one as tuna by catch before so I don't really count it. 

Have you tried lighter for bream and the smaller species? I've found by using 6lb I'd get a lot more bites. At least you've got a bit of insurance if something bigger latches on with 14lb. 

Pm me your address and I can send you some 3lb leader and a couple of bream lures I no longer use if you like. 

Good point about keeping the jetty clean if it's multi purpose!! I think the ones I'm referring to must be fishing specific. 

Morning samsteele115

I use the 80lb because of their mouths, and also so if I hook a small bully I can land it without being bitten off. I think it's far too fresh for there to be jewies at the moment, but I've read a report of someone catching soapies this far up (that was in the Millennium drought though). Currently, I'm just using a blood knot on it. It is about 60cm-1m, depending on how I tie it. You want enough trace for your livie to swim around. 

I've only caught one jew as well, and it wasn't even legal (52cm). A really big river jew would be a true trophy fish. I know someone who's caught a 1m+ at Dutton Park, which isn't the furthest away from me...

I have one line right up in structure, and especially when chasing cod, which fight dirty, any lighter and I wouldn't be landing them. On the line I catch perch on, it is a bit of overkill, but there's quite a few snags so if I did hook onto something OK it's good to have some backup. There's some spots I'd love to explore with lures, so if you're fine with sending me some, that'd be great! Would you mind sending it to our P.O box? I'll send a PM now   

12 hours ago, GregOug said:

All the jetties I used to fish on had dried blood, scales and pieces of old bait on them. I wouldn’t worry too much about cleaning them Hamish. I don’t think the council is going to close them down if they get a letter about signs of fishing activity on a jetty designed for fishing.

cheers

Greg

Hey GregOug

Yep, the reason I clean this one is because it's not just for fishing but more so for boats, kayaks, and a lot of families spend time on there. Like samsteele115 said, it's good to keep multi-purpose jetties clean, or in my opinion, any public ones for that matter (that you can help, i.e. try to be tidy when fishing off them). 

Cheers Hamish

[GregOug]

3 hours ago, AUS-BNE-FISHO said:

Morning samsteele115

I use the 80lb because of their mouths, and also so if I hook a small bully I can land it without being bitten off. I think it's far too fresh for there to be jewies at the moment, but I've read a report of someone catching soapies this far up (that was in the Millennium drought though). Currently, I'm just using a blood knot on it. It is about 60cm-1m, depending on how I tie it. You want enough trace for your livie to swim around. 

I've only caught one jew as well, and it wasn't even legal (52cm). A really big river jew would be a true trophy fish. I know someone who's caught a 1m+ at Dutton Park, which isn't the furthest away from me...

I have one line right up in structure, and especially when chasing cod, which fight dirty, any lighter and I wouldn't be landing them. On the line I catch perch on, it is a bit of overkill, but there's quite a few snags so if I did hook onto something OK it's good to have some backup. There's some spots I'd love to explore with lures, so if you're fine with sending me some, that'd be great! Would you mind sending it to our P.O box? I'll send a PM now   

Hey GregOug

Yep, the reason I clean this one is because it's not just for fishing but more so for boats, kayaks, and a lot of families spend time on there. Like samsteele115 said, it's good to keep multi-purpose jetties clean, or in my opinion, any public ones for that matter (that you can help, i.e. try to be tidy when fishing off them). 

Cheers Hamish

Ah. Okay. Understand.

[Drop Bear]

Nice one mate. Did you eat em or catch and release? 

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

7 minutes ago, Drop Bear said:

Nice one mate. Did you eat em or catch and release? 

Thanks Drop Bear, I normally release everything I catch. The water quality is the only reason. Oh, and the reason I haven't tried the prawn recipe you gave me is because I haven't caught enough!!!  Lol

Cheers Hamish

[Drop Bear]

2 minutes ago, AUS-BNE-FISHO said:

Thanks Drop Bear, I normally release everything I catch. The water quality is the only reason. Oh, and the reason I haven't tried the prawn recipe you gave me is because I haven't caught enough!!!  Lol

Cheers Hamish

They will be back. you will start to get the small ones around October or November and the bigger ones come in around March. 

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Hey all

OK, I'm going to quickly do the reports now as I'm feeling well again. The first session was on Sunday the 9th, and the second was on Friday (the public holiday). I had a weekend of fishing planned on the long weekend, but of course it was cut short due to myself getting sick. 

On the Sunday, I got down to the park at 2:15PM (or about). I chucked out the lines, with prawn (and the salmon line with mullet). I started throwing the cast net, but to no avail. I saw the perch line get pickered once, and then again, but I kept missing them. The river perch seem to be a very timid fish, or at least the small ones. Nothing like a small squire or baby bream, that is for sure. I eventually heard a run. I ran over, picked it up, and it was hooked. The fish was hooked, had some weight, and was putting up a good tussle (seems to be your favourite word ellicat, Lol). I made light work of it on my gear, and I eventually lifted up an OK perch from the river. 

See photo ' A 31cm River Perch - an OK fight was had'

A bit prior to this, my friend had arrived. I released the perch, but the bugger didn't kick off. Instead, it got washed up onto the muddy bank, much to our dismay. We couldn't just leave it there too die, so my friend decided (or, maybe he didn't have a choice) to scoop it up with the net. He just couldn't reach, and he accidentally dropped the net. He then had to hop on the mud, which he gave me the perch from. He clambered up the other side, getting back to me soon after. In this time, I thought the perch would have to become crab bait, but after a lot of swimming it kicked off. Phew. That was a bit of drama. I started to get a few OK prawns when cast netting, but fishing was still bloody slow. The salmon line was going untouched, the cod line was only getting pickered (occasionally), and at this point even the perch line wasn't getting pickered! I kept trying to get live prawns, and the time flew by. Soon, I threw towards the other end of the jetty. I felt some prawns clicking, clicking, and then a fair bit of tugging as I pulled the net up. I figured I'd have some good prawns, but the second I saw the top of the net I realised I'd jagged a bream, which was probably eating the prawns surrounding it.  

See photo ' A 29cm Cast net bream' 

After that bream, which was released, it was almost time to go. I kept cast netting and fishing, but soon we were on our way back. I packed up all the gear, and called it a day. Here are the stats of that trip - 

Stats of trip - 

Tide: High tide, 2:25PM, 1.7M, Low tide, 8:20PM, .6M

Moon phase: Waning Gibbous, 70%, so a fair bit of run

Weather: Very windy and cloudy

Bait used: Prawns, mullet

Bait caught: Prawns

Fish caught: Bream, Perch (x1)

Tackle used: 12, 14lb, 30lb braid mainlines, 20lb 30lb fluorocarbon leaders, 80lb trace (mono), size 4/o suicide and circle hooks, size 6 and 2 ball/bean sinkers, large barrel swivel, size 2500 Shimano Nasci and Shinobi, Size 650 Penn reel, 8", 6"6', and 2M, Ugly Stik, Venomat?, and Rogue Firepoint boat rods used.

The second trip was on the public holiday, Friday. My plan was to go for a morning fish. When we got there, the tide was not ideal, but we began cast netting anyway. To our disappointment, I figured out that someone had left fish blood (I'd assume from bait) on the jetty, which is a multi-use jetty used by the whole community. Some ruin it for all...

See photo - It had just been cleaned too, so it was a real shame

My dad just kept throwing, and on some of the left over prawn the perch line got a run. It seems to be very typical of this fish to pick up the bait, take a run, and then if the hook is not set it will immediately fall out. There was still some bait left on the hook, so I was hopeful that we would still be off the donut. My dad just kept throwing, and caught the only thing for the morning - a couple glassies.

See photo - My dad cleaning out glassies. He put in about 40 good throws this morning for bugger all... and I ran out of bait!

The cast netting continued, and apart from a minuscule sized prawn, he got nothing. Now it was about seven (we woke up at five and left at 5:20AM), and it was up to me I ensured the mornings work wasn't for nothing. Well, I got a few more runs (small ones) from what I can only think would be River Perch, and I think I lost a massive one as on the last bit of good bait the line was squealing off the reel like no tomorrow, but unfortunately I think I pulled the hooks  when I picked it up. 

I kept trying to catch livies for a bit longer, but once again, I couldn't manage anything. I wasn't feeling to flash, but did see the fella who took the photo of me with my 84cm threadie in April and I had a nice chat with him. Since low tide wasn't until midday or so, I decided to call it quits at about nine in the morning because I was completely out of bait. Not a good thing for a first session, but at least I managed to get out for a fish. Here are the stats of that miserable session - 

Stats of trip - 

Tide: High tide, 1.6M, 6:23AM, Low tide, 12:42PM, .5M

Moon Phase: Waning Crescent, 24%, not much run

Weather: Slightly cloudy, chilly

Bait caught: - 

Bait used: Prawns

Tackle used: 12lb, 14lb, 30lb, braid mainlines, 20lb and 30lb fluorocarbon leader, 80lb mono trace, size 2 and 6 ball/bean sinkers, size 4/o suicide and circle hooks, large barrel swivel, size 2500 and 650 Shimano Nasci, Diawa Shinobi, Penn reel, 8" Ugly Stik rod, 6"6' Venomat?, rod, Size 2M Rogue Firepoint boat rod

Overall Success Rate: 12% - The session was like dog crap - I caught a cold... and that was it! 

Alright, thanks for reading everyone. I hope you enjoyed. Sorry for any grammar errors. These are starting to sound like one of my oral presentations with the bit at the end. ... And it certainly wasn't a good Suburbs of Origin Prefish.

Cheers Hamish  

 

[ellicat]

14 minutes ago, AUS-BNE-FISHO said:

Overall Success Rate: 12% - The session was like dog crap - I caught a cold... and that was it! 

How did you arrive at 12% ? haha

Bugger you got crook but at least you had two good tussles. ;)

 

[GregOug]

Great report Hamish. You certainly put effort into your reports as well as your fishing.

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

27 minutes ago, ellicat said:

How did you arrive at 12% ? haha

Bugger you got crook but at least you had two good tussles.

 

Hey ellicat

 Thanks for that, haha, I didn't want to give it ten percent, didn't want to give it eleven, and it was the first even number after ten. I have a weird way of thinking .Lol!

18 minutes ago, GregOug said:

Great report Hamish. You certainly put effort into your reports as well as your fishing.

Thanks GregOug, I just hope one of my reports gives me something good to report about!

Cheers Hamish

[GregOug]

That’s why I don’t bother reporting Hamish. I’ve lost all hope.

[Drop Bear]

Nice one mate.